Step 1 of 8
Know what you buy and what it can do
What happens
List every food, ingredient, food-contact packaging and chemical you buy. Rank each by what could go wrong and whether anything later in your process would catch it.
Good looks like
Cooked chilled chicken that goes straight into a sandwich ranks well above raw flour that gets baked, and everyone can say why.
How it goes wrong
Every supplier gets the same form, so the one selling seafood gets the same scrutiny as the one selling paper napkins.
Who
Technical
The should cover raw materials as well as process and environment. Rank on the , the food's use, any kill step downstream, its , and how vulnerable the people you feed are.
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